70 | Overcoming Workplace Imposter Syndrome and Navigating Career Transitions with Adunola Adeshola
She's So Lucky
She's So Lucky
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re talking to Adunola Adeshola, a career strategist and Forbes contributor. She teaches flourishing and unfulfilled corporate professionals how to secure new positions they love at companies they love.
Her clients have landed interviews and job offers at Tiffany & Co., Macy's, CBS, BP and other amazing Fortune 500 companies in their industries. Her expertise has also been featured in Bloomberg, Fast Company, Business Insider and other publications.
In this episode, we talk about…
- How to overcome imposter syndrome in the workplace.
- Transitioning to remote work.
- Advice for navigating a toxic company culture.
- How to navigate career changes during a time of uncertainty.
- Stress management and maintaining balance while job seeking.
RESOURCES:
- Check out Adunola’s Website Employee Redefined
- Follow Adunola on Instagram: @thenewemployees
- Download Adunola’s free guide, How to Go from Zero Interviews to Dream Job Offers
- Read Adunola’s Forbes column
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| 0:57.0 | Welcome to Balance Black Girl, a podcast dedicated to mental, physical, and |
| 1:06.3 | emotional health from the Black Woman's perspective. Tune in to hear from |
| 1:10.5 | Black Woman Health and Wellness Experts giving the approachable advice you need to help you feel your best. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm your host, Lestrandra Alfred. Let's dive in. |
| 1:20.4 | Thank you so much for tuning into this week's episode of Balance Black Girl. |
| 1:27.0 | My name is Les. |
| 1:28.0 | I am your host and I started this podcast almost two years ago which I cannot even believe that much time has gone by back in 2018 |
| 1:40.0 | when I was really craving conversations with other black women about our well-being and about how we take care of ourselves and how that changes and how it ebbs and how it flows and I |
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